Beer, Food, Life
From the category archives:
I haven’t posted much lately partly for lack of inspiration and partly because blogging is a big part of my day job now, but this I had to share. As an experiment, I drew off a portion of pale ale wort last weekend and put it outside over night to see if I could get [...]
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Beer brings people, friends and family together and that is a good enough reason for us to celebrate beer in all forms. Beer takes up a large part in any typical individual’s life and this is why, many people have started brewing their own beer right in their homes. Brewing beer is a wonderful experience; [...]
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I used to live in Japan. Whenever I ate out with a group of Japanese friends, without fail, someone would always tell me about how Japanese cuisine was more complex because Japanese chefs understood umami. So what is Umami? It’s sometimes called the 5th taste. It was first identified in 1908 by Ikeda Kikunae (don’t [...]
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In order to learn how to control malt aroma in my beers, I brew several similar beers in a row and compare mash temperatures and recipes to try and figure out how to formulate recipes with malt aroma in mind. There were few months where I was concerned about the lack of malt aroma in [...]
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I don’t want to understate the importance of sanitation. If you’re an all-grain brewer like myself, every batch doesn’t just represent 6 gallons of beer (or however much you make at a time), but it also represents at least 6 hours of time. I think of sanitation as being in two categories: pre-boil and post-boil. [...]
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This, my second beer using burnt orange, is a cross between a tripel and a winter ale. I wanted the spicing of a winter ale with the phenol of a tripel to serve as a base for the flavours of burnt orange. Burnt orange gives beer a nice copper-orange colour so I made a very [...]
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One of the great things about home brewing is that you aren’t limited by commercial concerns. You can brew using fresh fruit or wild mushrooms, or you can brew beer that is so ridiculously strong that commercial brewers would have to charge wine prices to make it worthwhile. Whoo-yaa, we home-brewers aren’t limited by paltry [...]
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I have a mild distaste for New Year’s resolutions. If they help you, then great. But if I’m not going to change my life for the better now, then I’m probably not going to do it on New Year’s Day either. That’s why I like this month’s Fermentation Friday topic about setting goals. It’s like [...]
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I found a food-blog post extolling the virtues of burnt citrus fruit when I was doing research for my duck breast prosciutto. Unfortunately I can’t find the blog recommending burnt citrus fruit so no link, but basically they said burning citrus fruit causes a chemical reaction that radically changes some of the flavour compounds and [...]
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I can’t decide if this beer made with Chanterelle mushrooms good or bad. It’s definitely an interesting beer which is why I’m sharing the recipe and my thoughts. My intent with this beer was to see how the fruit flavours of the Chanterelle would complement the fruit flavours from Belgian wheat beer yeast. The base [...]
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